Marlins gain starters Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea from Padres in 7-player exchange
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| Marlins gain starters Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea from Padres in 7-player exchange |
obtained Fernando Rodney from the Padres, permitting the front office to move its concentrate somewhere else.
That left including a beginning pitcher and, in a perfect world, a youthful, controllable resource, with Hill ever careful that the sort of fortifications Marlins coveted would require subtracting critical prospects from the hierarchical profundity graph.
Friday, three days before baseball's non-waiver exchange due date, Hill and the Marlins confirmed both of the keep going two things on their list of things to get.
Marlins gain starters Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea
obtained right-gave starters Andrew Cashner, a free operator at season's end, and Colin Rea, a 26-year-old new kid on the block, in a seven-player exchange with the Padres.
Miami additionally grabbed small time right-gave reliever Tayron Guerrero and money. Made a beeline for San Diego were 2015 first-round draft pick Josh Naylor and hard-tossing right-gave prospect Luis Castillo, in addition to starter Jarred Cosart and harmed reliever Carter Capps.
Wounds have, to some degree, assumed a part in Cashner's weaker-than-anticipated results over the previous two seasons. In the wake of contributing to a 2.87 ERA 289 1/3 innings from 2013-14, Cashner posted a 4.34 ERA in 184 2/3 innings last season and is at 4.76 in 79 1/3 innings in 2016. Be that as it may, he's pitched great over his previous three trips and still accompanies some level of upside. He is, all things considered, under two years expelled from a season that saw him convey a solid 2.55 ERA in 123 1/3 innings, despite everything he midpoints just shy of 94 mph on his warmer to oblige an above-normal ground-ball rate. That last point is key for a Marlins infield that has in addition to safeguards in Martin Prado at third base, the as of late restored Dee Gordon at a respectable halfway point and protective wizard Adeiny Hechavarria at shortstop.
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| Hill and the Marlins confirmed both of the keep going two things on their list of things to get. |
Rea, 26, is a completely diverse sort of benefit for the Marlins. Marlins's in simply his second season at the major class level and is controllable through the 2021 season, giving Miami a potential long haul piece in the revolution, however his initial results have as a matter of fact been blended. The previous twelfth round pick has a 4.81 ERA in 131 vocation innings at the Major League level, averaging 7.0 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9 to oblige a 45.5 percent ground-ball rate. Rea, however, entered the 2015 season as the Padres' No. 4 prospect at MLB.com and No. 7 prospect at Baseball America. Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com noted at the time that the new Padres administration considered Rea to be a charming astonishment, as Marlins'd added speed to his fastball, more energy to his curveball furthermore enhanced hMarlins order. The progressions gave Rea the upside of settling in as a third or fourth starter in the Majors, per the report, keeping in mind Rea isn't there only yet, there unquestionably is by all accounts some undiscovered potential with which VP of pitching improvement Jim Benedict (who came over from the Pirates this winter) can work.
Neither Cashner nor Rea are having particularly solid seasons.
Cashner — 6 feet 6, 235 pounds and 29 years of age — possesses a 4.76 ERA and 1.39 WHIP in 16 begins, managing neck and hamstring strains along the way. Cashner has never been as powerful as he was in the primary portion of 2014, when Marlins posted a 2.36 ERA before arriving on the crippled rundown for two months.
This month, nonetheless, Cashner has been something more. Cashner has constrained adversaries to one earned keep running in three of five begins (with one 2/3-inning, eight-run clunker blended in). That late keep running, alongside Cashner's experience as a group's No. 1 pitcher and Mattingly's commonality with him as a previous NL West enemy, made him alluring to Miami. Cashner
"We needed to get somebody who was hot and who might bring prompt effect and achievement and help us win ballgames," Hill said. "We're to a great degree eager to acquire what we felt is likely the most impactful focus available."
Rea has kept going more than six innings only four times in 18 begins this season, his first full one in the major associations. He has a 4.98 ERA and 1.46 WHIP, striking out less than two hitters for each one he strolls. Subsequent to opening the season in the Padres' warm up area, the 6-foot-5, 225-pound Rea immediately moved into the revolution, where Rea has remained.
Rea is under group control through the 2021 season.
Guerrero, 25, contributed one major association diversion for San Diego, part a large portion of the season between Triple-An and Double-A.
The settled pivot includes some significant pitfalls: a weaker Marlins ranch framework that as of now had little in the method for big-time prospects. Naylor, a 19-year-old first baseman with Low-A Greesboro this season, is years from the significant classes however is seen as having impressive force potential and a suspect glove. Rea was the group's top small time position player. Castillo, 23 and with High-A Jupiter, tosses as hard as anyone in the framework, however the strikeout numbers aren't what one would expect of a fireballer at that age and level.
The 26-year-old Cosart (5.95 ERA in four diversions) contributed to blended results the major groups for the Marlins since they exchanged for him two years prior this week. Capps, 25, is out for the season in the wake of having Tommy John surgery amid spring preparing. His 1.16 ERA and 16.8 strikeouts for every nine innings crosswise over 30 appearances in 2015 made him one of the best relievers in baseball.
Losing Capps harms the Marlins warm up area on paper in future years, however this exchange wasn't about future years. The 2016 Marlins are purchasers and postseason contenders.
"As you watched us play through April and May, we knew we needed to invigorate our beginning pitching," Hill said. "We think this is a playoff group, and we needed to do our best to give us each chance."
